Fedora Weekly News 270

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 270[1] for the week ending April 6, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In announcements this week, voting for the Fedora 16 release name is open through April 11, 2011! Also notification of some serverbeach outages on April 12, and notification of the intention to rebase [...]

Fedora Weekly News 269

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 269[1] for the week ending March 30, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This issue begins with announcements from the Fedora Project, including changes to the packaging guidelines and an additional week slip of the Fedora 15 release date. One article for Fedora In the News [...]

Fedora Weekly News 268

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 268[1] for the week ending March 23, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue opens with announcements, including details on Fedora being accepted into the 2011 Summer of Code, as well as notice of some changes to the packaging guidelines. We’re looking for a permanent [...]

Fedora Weekly News #267

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 267[1] for the week ending March 16, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This week’s issue begins with announcements from the Project, including notice of scheduled downtime on 03-16-2011 of the Serverbeach servers, details on the Gnome 3 Test Day, and pointers to Fedora Events happening [...]

Fedora Weekly News 266

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 266[1] for the week ending March 9, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In announcements from the Project, nominations for the Fedora 16 release name are now open! Will it be “Beefy Miracle” or some other name related to Lovelock? Enter your ideas today! This week [...]

Announcing the release of Fedora 15 Alpha!!

The Fedora 15 “Lovelock” Alpha release is available! This release offers a preview of some of the best free and open source technology currently under development. Catch a glimpse of the future: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease *** What is the Alpha release? *** The Alpha release contains all the beefy features of Fedora 15 in a form that [...]

Fedora 16 Naming: Nominations are now open. Submit your suggestion!

Hear ye, hear ye! Attention, all Fedora fans and release naming enthusiasts: The time has come once again to choose the name for the next release of Fedora.  Potential names will be accepted for consideration beginning March 3rd (in other words, NOW) through March 10. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_16 Please note that you *must* follow the instructions and [...]

Fedora Weekly News 265

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 265[1] for the week ending March 2, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. Our issue kicks off with a couple outage announcements from this past week, followed by three articles ‘In the News’, including an interview with Fedora Program Manager, Robyn Bergeron. In Ambassador news, summaries [...]

Fedora Weekly News 264

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 264[1] for the week ending February 23, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. This week’s issue begins with details on this week’s Graphics Test Week and how to participate. In Development announcements, an update from the Docs team in Fedora 15 alpha release notes readiness, and [...]

Fedora Weekly News 263

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 263[1] for the week ending February 16, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In announcements from the Fedora Project, details of Planet Edited, mass rebuild and mass rebranching status updates, and pointers to Fedora events globally. In Ambassador news, coverage of traffic from the Ambassador and [...]

Work stalls on Unity ports for Fedora and openSUSE

Individual developers working on the Unity shell ports for Fedora and openSUSE have both decided to stop work for the time being. Adam Williamson, working on the Fedora port, said in his blog that since his Unity work was entirely voluntary and his work ethic fluctuates, he has lost motivation for the moment. He mentions [...]

Fedora Weekly News 262

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 262[1] for the week ending February 9, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. We begin the issue with announcements, including opening bids for the next FUDCon EMEA, notification of some changes to the packaging guidelines, and a call for ideas for the next Google Summer of [...]

Fedora Weekly News 261

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 261[1] for the week ending February 2, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In announcements this week, details on this week’s first Gnome 3 Test Day and an invitation to participate! One German article from Fedora In the News this week on Linus Torvalds and Fedora, [...]

Fedora Weekly News 260

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 260[1] for the week ending January 26, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In announcements, details on the official release of Fedora 14 64-bit for IBM System z, and upcoming details on gtk2 support ending for Evolution related packages in Rawhide, the development version of Fedora. [...]

Fedora infrastructure hacked – no damage done

The Fedora Project has confirmed that there was an intrusion into its infrastructure on the 22nd, but investigations have shown “no impact on product integrity”. The announcement of the intrusion by Fedora Project Leader, Jared Smith, states that the project became aware of a problem when a contributor received an email from FAS, the Fedora [...]

Fedora Weekly News 259

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 259[1] for the week ending January 19, 2011. What follows are some highlights from this issue. In announcements, we have the release of EPEL 6! The Ambassadors group welcomed two new member this weeks, both representing the USA. The Ambassadors were looking at Test Days and Fedora Classroom, and [...]

Fedora Weekly News 258

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 258[1] for the week ending January 12, 2010. What follows are some highlights from this issue. We have a shorter issue this week as several teams are still ramping up after the year-end break. In announcements, a call for input at Friday Fedora Board IRC meeting, and development announcements [...]

VBoxHeadless – Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.0 On A Headless Fedora 14 Server

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Installing Cherokee With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 14

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Reading Files From The Linux Kernel Space (Module/Driver) (Fedora 14)

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